It's a small town drama centered around a child disappearance, with some detective/mystery elements and the occasional sci-fi element in the first half of the season, and then the sci-fi/time travel element is prominent a lot more in the second half.
It's not at all the grand thing everyone praises it to be.
While a lot of time travel stories are unncessarily overly-complex, and this is no exception, it does manage to weave most of it's plot threads and elements together decent enough.
One of the problems is that there's sometimes too many characters, and it's combined with multiple time periods, that most of the characters don't get the focus that they need. And most if not all of them are not likeable.
For example, the show quickly introduces boring teenage drama and an affair plot. I hate these, because most stories involving them are rubbish. And you put them in a time travel plot? No.
What makes it worse, is that there's quite a bit of teenage drama and focus on affairs/love triangles. Stupid.
There even highschool drama in multiple time periods. They even throw in an obsession plot.
There simply isn't much time travel plot being weaved in the show in the first half, and so most of what's left is small town drama. So both the small town drama and the time travel stuff end up not being that interesting.
The plot is stretched out. The romance/relationship storylines are boring.
There's not a lot of intelligence in regards to the time travel or dialogue. It's sometimes boringly predictable or generic.
Too many questions are raised and not enough answers, And often the answers we do get are stupid. There's also too much cryptic dialogue. Some cryptic dialogue is ok to do, but when you too much you look arrogant.
The first half of the season focuses more on the small town drama than the case about children being taken and killed. And yeah part of the small town drama is connected to the time travel shenanigans, but it's not a lot connected to what you are witnessing. It's just boring normal drama for most of the season. They wasted a lot of the potential.
The storyline goes into some strange and dumb directions, not even related to the time travel, like the obsession plot.
The method of time travel in the show is also kinda stupid, It reminds me of the method in Back to the Future, but without the cool factor, and in that movie it was all about a whacky adventure and having fun with light sci-fi elements, so it worked. Here it just seems dumb, where it's all about the serious atmosphere. It feels similar to the same method of time travel as Back to the Future, except in this show it's crawling down a tunnel and opening a hatch and then you've time travelled. The other method is a device that makes a portal that makes you time travel. That's it. Oh and it was built by someone in the 20th century with 20th century parts. Oh and only he can make it. As bad as that is, it gets worse later on, as it's revealed he didn't really make it, but was delivered the plans by someone else in the future. Or something. Ugh.
Review by WardVIP 8BlockedParent2022-11-21T10:02:58Z
It's a small town drama centered around a child disappearance, with some detective/mystery elements and the occasional sci-fi element in the first half of the season, and then the sci-fi/time travel element is prominent a lot more in the second half.
It's not at all the grand thing everyone praises it to be.
While a lot of time travel stories are unncessarily overly-complex, and this is no exception, it does manage to weave most of it's plot threads and elements together decent enough.
One of the problems is that there's sometimes too many characters, and it's combined with multiple time periods, that most of the characters don't get the focus that they need. And most if not all of them are not likeable.
For example, the show quickly introduces boring teenage drama and an affair plot. I hate these, because most stories involving them are rubbish. And you put them in a time travel plot? No.
What makes it worse, is that there's quite a bit of teenage drama and focus on affairs/love triangles. Stupid.
There even highschool drama in multiple time periods. They even throw in an obsession plot.
There simply isn't much time travel plot being weaved in the show in the first half, and so most of what's left is small town drama. So both the small town drama and the time travel stuff end up not being that interesting.
The plot is stretched out. The romance/relationship storylines are boring.
There's not a lot of intelligence in regards to the time travel or dialogue. It's sometimes boringly predictable or generic.
Too many questions are raised and not enough answers, And often the answers we do get are stupid. There's also too much cryptic dialogue. Some cryptic dialogue is ok to do, but when you too much you look arrogant.
The first half of the season focuses more on the small town drama than the case about children being taken and killed. And yeah part of the small town drama is connected to the time travel shenanigans, but it's not a lot connected to what you are witnessing. It's just boring normal drama for most of the season. They wasted a lot of the potential.
The storyline goes into some strange and dumb directions, not even related to the time travel, like the obsession plot.
The method of time travel in the show is also kinda stupid, It reminds me of the method in Back to the Future, but without the cool factor, and in that movie it was all about a whacky adventure and having fun with light sci-fi elements, so it worked. Here it just seems dumb, where it's all about the serious atmosphere. It feels similar to the same method of time travel as Back to the Future, except in this show it's crawling down a tunnel and opening a hatch and then you've time travelled. The other method is a device that makes a portal that makes you time travel. That's it. Oh and it was built by someone in the 20th century with 20th century parts. Oh and only he can make it. As bad as that is, it gets worse later on, as it's revealed he didn't really make it, but was delivered the plans by someone else in the future. Or something. Ugh.